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Twitter Founder Reveals Secret Formula for Getting Rich Online | WIRED

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The co-creator of Twitter and Blogger has decided that "the internet is simply a giant machine designed to give people what they want." Here's what this grand unified theory means and where it came from.

Save this story Save this story Ev Williams has figured out the internet. That's what he told the gathered tech heads at the recent XOXO conference in Portland, Oregon, and while he may have said this with tongue partly in cheek, he spent the next 30 minutes unloading his unified theory of the global computer network, an interpretation formed after 20 years of hard thinking -- to say nothing of his experience creating seminal internet companies Blogger and Twitter. In his speech, Williams explained what the internet is, how it works, and how to get rich from it. Truth be told, Williams is not

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